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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	ker-²
DEFINITION:	To grow. Oldest form er-, becoming ker- in centum languages. Derivatives include cereal, Creole, concrete, and recruit. 1. Suffixed form ker-es-. cereal, Ceres, from Latin Cers,* goddess of agriculture, especially the growth of grain. 2. Extended form kr- (< kre-). a. Suffixed form kr-y-. create, Creole, griot; procreate, from Latin crere,* to bring forth, create, produce (< “to cause to grow); b. suffixed form kr-sko-. crescendo, crescent, crew¹; accrue, concrescence, concrete, decrease, excrescence, increase, recruit, from Latin crscere,* to grow, increase. 3. Suffixed o-grade form kor-wo-, “growing,” adolescent. kore, kouros; Dioscuri, hypocorism, from Greek kouros,* koros, boy, son, and kor, girl. 4. Compound s-kro-, “of one growth” (s-, same, one; see sem-¹). sincere, from Latin sincrus, pure, clean. (Pokorny 2. er- 577.)


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